Sunday, September 12, 2004

This is a story of a medical career and a molecule,
neuropeptide
S. NPS is a small neuropeptide neurotransmitter that has the dual
properties of both reducing anxiety and increasing alertness; this is
rather unusual. The stories are interwoven in order to illustrate
some points
about neuroscience and bioethics, with a couple of political jabs
thrown in just for kicks. Read the rest at The Rest of the Story.

The link below goes to a dummy account that automatically forwards email to the Federal Trade Commission's spam reporting service. Don't use it unless
you are a robot. Instead, act like a human and figure out the real address from this: joseph/dot/j7uy5/at-sign/gmail/dot/com

The Corpus Callosum is an occasional journal of armchair musings, by an Ann Arbor reality-based, slightly-left-of-center regular guy who reserves the right to be highly irregular at times.
Topics: social commentary, neuroscience, politics, science news.
Mission: to develop connections between hard science and social science, using linear thinking and intuition; and to explore the relative merits of spontaneity vs. strategy.